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Applications are now open for the 2025 Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive Fellowship
Improve your writing skills, learn from leading progress builders and intellectuals, and publish essays about progress
May 1
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April 2025
Links and short notes, 2025-04-23
Impossible sci-fi nonsense, the shadow of the Great War, heliocentrism, the bottom-up abundance agenda, institutional sclerosis, and more
Apr 23
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Jason Crawford
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The Flywheel
Chapter 6 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
Apr 22
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Jason Crawford
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The Flywheel
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Announcing Progress Conference 2025
A four-day event to connect people in the progress movement: Berkeley Oct 16-19
Apr 17
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Heike Larson
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Announcing Progress Conference 2025
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We should install a thermostat on the Earth
Chapter 5 (“Solutionism”), part 3 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
Apr 14
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Jason Crawford
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March 2025
How much does it cost to back up solar with batteries?
This turns out to be a tricky question. Here's my current, partial understanding
Mar 23
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Jason Crawford
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How much does it cost to back up solar with batteries?
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Links and short notes, 2025-03-18
The 150-year history of d/acc, a $120M progress fund, fertility on demand, 19th-century kids' sci-fi, the real lesson of Cassandra’s curse, giving the…
Mar 18
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Jason Crawford
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We’re hiring a developmental editor
Come work with our brilliant fellows this summer/fall!
Mar 17
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Emma McAleavy
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We’re hiring a developmental editor
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Links and short notes, 2025-03-10
A visible sonic boom, AI in SaaS, progress on permitting reform, fewer tornado deaths, the closing of the frontier, Rousseau and Kant vs. the Age of…
Mar 10
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Jason Crawford
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Solutionism, part 2
Chapter 5 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
Mar 6
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Jason Crawford
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Solutionism, part 2
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Links and short notes, 2025-03-03
Progress studies in university and high school, a positive supply shock for truth, the hinge of history, Dean Ball on AI liability, Kevin Kelly on the…
Mar 3
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Jason Crawford
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February 2025
Links and short notes, 2025-02-17
I go away for three weeks and everyone announces everything
Feb 17
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Jason Crawford
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